DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2020.v08i04.027

Pages: 1170-1173

In this review, the unique peculiarities of the SARS-CoV-2 were screened, in an attempt at defining the most relevant features of the virus that might explain its erratic and deviant behavior. The characteristics of COVID-19 were likewise scrutinized, in order to associate them with one of the footsteps of the virus in its voyage around the planet. Although a hypercytokinemia is certainly an inherent part of the disease, we have suggested that the 'cytokine storm' may not be an integral part of COVID-19, and, while microthrombosis may be accounted for by the CAC/DIC secondary to viral sepsis, various degrees of bleeding have been reported.